Yesteryears

12/03/2024

Congratulations to Our Contingent for their 50 years of scouting

ANKARA ÇANKAYA İZCİ GRUBU
“50. YIL ROZETİ”
Ankara Çankaya İzci Grubu 12 Mart 1975 günü Ankara Çankaya Lisesinde Kurucu Liderimiz Galip Ümit OBRUK tarafından kurulmuştur. Grubumuz 12 Mart 2024 günü Kuruluşu itibarı ile 49 Yılı geride bırakmış ve kuruluşunun 50.Yılına girmiştir. Gururluyuz. Yarım yüzyılı ifade eden bu süre, bir insanın yaşamında önemli bir dönemi temsil eder.
50 yıla varan onurlu geçmişini taçlandırmak üzere 50’nci Yılda birçok etkinlik grubumuzca planlanmıştır. Ankara Çankaya İzci Grubu 50.Yıl Metal Rozeti de bu amaçla üretilmiş olup, sadece grubumuz üyelerince sol cebin üst tarafına takılarak taşınacaktır. Metal rozetin ölçüleri 5,0 x 4,1 cm dir. Rozet üzerindeki yazılar ve 50.Yıl logosu altın sarısı kabartma olup, zemin açık kahve rengindedir.

Yarım yüzyıl çalışmalarını hiç ara vermeden sürdüren Ankara Çankaya İzci Grubu, çalışmalarına düzenli olarak devam etmekte olup, Türk İzciliğine birçok eser kazandırmıştır ve kazandırmaya devam eden bir Ekoldür.
HOŞ GELDİN 50.YIL…
ANKARA ÇANKAYA İZCİ GRUBU

04/03/2024

20/02/2024

World Rover Scouts History

V) Factors for The Rovers speed of deployment (2-3)

3. Conferences and Moots*

The first National Rover Moot was held in Birmingham in October 1923, at Yorks Wood Park with P B Nevill acting as Chief Rover.

On November 24th, 1928, a Rover Scout Conference was held in London. Baden Powell was unable to attend, as he was ill, but he sent a message urging Rovers "to keep one of two points in view." to sum up the Chief's views:
"In formulating rules or schemes for Rovering, for goodness' sake let them be elastic, so they apply not only to London or Puddlington, but also to our far reaching to foreign countries, who look to us for direction."

"Rover Scouting is a preparation for life, and also a pursuit for life."

The first World Rover Moot was held in 1931 at Kandersteg, Switzerland, in the International Scout Chalet that B-P had opened in 1923. There were Rovers present from 22 nations. B-P was there too and wrote:
"From where I sit in the flower-decked balcony of this Chalet, I can see the flags of twenty-two nations waving above the tents, and the campfires of some three thousand young men gathered there.

"Rover Scouts they are: a brigade, as it were, of storm-troops of the larger army of over 2 million Boy Scouts. Their arms are alpenstocks, their discipline that of goodwill from within; their service consists not so much of fitting themselves for war as in developing the spirit of universal peace."

Baden-Powell was also to attend the 2nd World Rover Moot, held in Sweden in 1935, but unfortunately this would be the last time he was to be amongst a world gathering of his beloved Rovers. He again expressed his hopes that International Rover Moots would generate enough goodwill to avoid future conflict amongst nations, but, as we now know, the Third Reich was already on the march to the war.

* I will devote an article specifically at the end of this series to talk about World Scout Camps for Rovers (Moots), God willing.

Note: The attached photo is of Lord Baden-Powell, with his wife, Chief Guide Olave Baden-Powell, sitting next to him, at First World Rover Moot in Kandersteg, Switzerland, 1931.

Leader/ Amer M Safi
Scout trainer - Kuwait Scouts Association
Kuwait on Feb 19th, 2024